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Germán Alberto Gimenez Silva
Germán Alberto Gimenez Silva

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Imprint: Signed, Expiring Image Rendering with Dynamic Watermarks in Ruby

January 21, 2026

Distributing images securely is a recurring challenge in modern web applications. Whether for previews, confidential documents, or paid content, developers often need to ensure that images are not reused, hotlinked, or accessed indefinitely.

Imprint is a Ruby gem that addresses this problem by providing signed, time-limited image rendering with dynamic watermarks , allowing images to be served securely through expiring tokens.

The gem is framework-agnostic, lightweight, and designed to integrate naturally with Ruby and Rails applications without imposing routing or controller assumptions.


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